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The more i look into blockchain security, the more i realize that protecting funds today is only part of the conversation. We also need to think about what happens when the technology behind that protection needs an upgrade. It’s something that’s easy to overlook because most of us never see the cryptography working behind our wallets. We sign transactions and expect everything to remain secure. But technology changes, and security methods may eventually need to change with it. That’s one reason @Starknet approach caught my attention. Its native account abstraction gives developers more flexibility over how individual accounts validate transactions. Think of it as being able to replace one component of a security system without having to rebuild the entire infrastructure around it. If a different signature scheme becomes necessary in the future, a programmable account could potentially adopt that method without requiring a network-wide upgrade. There’s a technical detail here that makes the approach even more interesting. Account signatures handle transaction authorization, while STARK proofs verify that computations were executed correctly. They’re different parts of the system, which means changing an account’s signature verification method doesn’t automatically require changing the underlying proving system. That doesn’t solve everything, though. Starknet isn’t fully quantum-safe today, and there are still important questions around migration and its dependencies on Ethereum. I think it’s important to be honest about that rather than suggesting the problem has already been solved. What i appreciate is the idea of planning for changes before they’re forced upon us. We don’t know when quantum computing might challenge existing cryptography, and we can’t predict every security problem the industry will face. But we can build infrastructure that gives developers and users more room to respond. Personally, I think that kind of flexibility deserves more attention in crypto. Because the goal shouldn’t just be to build something secure today. It should also be to make sure we have a reasonable path forward when today’s security methods eventually need to evolve. Explore more –> quantum.starkware.co/